The program director at the local nonprofit Healthy Futures of Texas working to transform...
Anthony Betori, director of curriculum and innovation at Healthy Futures of Texas, is involved in creating up sex education curricula to be used in Texas public schools. He also advocates at the state level for policies increasing sex education.As a recent college graduate helping to form book groups in a public high school in Chicago, Anthony Betori was amazed by how little the students knew about their own bodies. Some of them didn’t even know how a woman becomes pregnant.
Seven years later, as a program director at the local nonprofit Healthy Futures of Texas, he helps to draw up sex education curricula that are used in schools across the state. “A lot of what I do is trying to build a world where that’s not how young people learn about sex and relationships,” he said. “I say this all the time: Texas can be a leader in sex ed. We have all the potential. We have so many brilliant minds; we have the public support. We just got to keep pushing for it, believe that it’s going to happen”Betori knows firsthand how strong of an impact a sex-ed class can have on a young person.
After graduating from Loyola, he spent nearly three years working for a nonprofit that sent him into Chicago schools and nonprofits to help students develop their reading and writing skills, and thereby increase their social and emotional resilience. It was then that he realized how little sex education some of the students were receiving.
He went to work for another nonprofit, the Chicago House and Social Service Agency, where he created a workforce development program for young people from communities affected by HIV. In 2018, he moved to Bexar County to be with his boyfriend; the two of them recently celebrated his fourth “Texas-versary,” he said.
“I got to watch how a transplant makes the city his home, meets our neighbors and does good work so authentically that people I’ve known for many, many years got to know him right away,” Amri said. “We’re so lucky to have him in the city.”Healthy Futures has its roots in the Big Decisions sex-ed curriculum. Dr.
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